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HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Data Dependence Tracking and its Application to Branch Prediction
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
Lei Chen, Steve Dropsho, David H. Albonesi
ICCD
2003
IEEE
107views Hardware» more  ICCD 2003»
14 years 5 months ago
Improving Branch Prediction Accuracy in Embedded Processors in the Presence of Context Switches
Embedded processors like Intel’s XScale use dynamic branch prediction to improve performance. Due to the presence of context switches, the accuracy of these predictors is reduce...
Sudeep Pasricha, Alexander V. Veidenbaum
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Accurate branch prediction for short threads
Multi-core processors, with low communication costs and high availability of execution cores, will increase the use of execution and compilation models that use short threads to e...
Bumyong Choi, Leo Porter, Dean M. Tullsen
ISCA
2002
IEEE
95views Hardware» more  ISCA 2002»
14 years 1 months ago
Design Tradeoffs for the Alpha EV8 Conditional Branch Predictor
This paper presents the Alpha EV8 conditional branch predictor. The Alpha EV8 microprocessor project, canceled in June 2001 in a late phase of development, envisioned an aggressiv...
André Seznec, Stephen Felix, Venkata Krishn...
CASES
2006
ACM
14 years 15 days ago
Power efficient branch prediction through early identification of branch addresses
Ever increasing performance requirements have elevated deeply pipelined architectures to a standard even in the embedded processor domain, requiring the incorporation of dynamic b...
Chengmo Yang, Alex Orailoglu